Rob Ely, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorResearch Interests: Student reasoning in mathematics, and also it relationship with historical reasoning in mathematics, particularly with respect to the infinite and the infinitesimal.» View Robert Ely's profile

Jennifer Johnson-Leung, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests: My research in number theory is motivated by the study of special values of L-functions, and in particular the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture. The general conjecture is an elegant, yet powerful, statement which implies, among other things, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and Stark's conjecture.» View Jennifer Johnson-Leung's profile

Paul Joyce, Ph.D.Dean of College of Science & ProfessorMy research focuses on developing and rigorously testing statistical methods and stochastic models to describe genetic phenomena. These include models and methods to: predict how viruses adapt; show the effect of antibiotic resistance genes encoded on plasmids; predict ancestral relationships among species; and to understand the ecological structure of bacterial communities in biofilms. This broad focus has lead to collaborations with researchers in phylogenetics, population genetics, theoretical ecology, mircobial ecology, experimental evolution, conservation genetics, and the list is growing.» View Paul Joyce's profile

Mark J. Nielsen, Ph.D.Associate Dean of College of Science and Professor of MathematicsResearch Interests: Discrete and combinatorial geometry. Problems of particular interest to me involve colorings of the plane, inscribing figures, and combinatorial questions about finite point configurations.» View Mark Nielsen's profile

Cynthia Piez, M.S.Senior InstructorResearch Interests: I am interested in the impact of technology on the teaching and learning of mathematics at the undergraduate level. In particular I am working with prospective secondary mathematics teachers and investigating the ways in which they interpret and link various representations. The mathematical context involves the investigation of properties and characteristics of functions in the presence of technology.» View Cynthia Piez's profile

Christopher Williams, Ph.D.Department Chair Mathematics & Statistical Science, Statistics Professor, and Affiliate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational BiologyMy research interests are on problems in statistical genetics, biostatistics, and statistical methods applied to issues in natural resources. One of the topics that I work on is the analysis of human twin data. Another area of interest is the estimation of disease prevalence from various types of data, such as in groups of fish that are collected and have their tissue pooled to test for disease status.» View Chris Williams' profile

David Yopp, D.A.Associate ProfessorResearch Interests: Proof and reasoning teaching and learning and the knowledge needed for effective mathematics instructional coaching in elementary and middle grades.» Visit David Yopp's profile

Affiliate Faculty

Scott L. Nuismer, Ph.D.ProfessorMy research focuses on the ecology and evolution of species interactions. The overall aim is to better understand how coevolution shapes patterns of biodiversity and the geographic distributions of interacting species. Work in my lab addresses these issues with a combination of mathematical modeling and field studies.
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